I love what these two do and in this guide they manage the complexity of dealing with your emotions with the same wit and charm of Dazzlehands’ Disco Pig championing their own style and The Bomb’s young boy putting his own stamp on the dive-bomb. The message is delivered with a real sense of fun and the text and illustrations sit seamlessly together on the page. This is a celebration of New Zealand culture to boot. The kiwi BBQ serves as the initial setting for young Charlie to confront his dad about the weight he’s recently been feeling on his shoulders, the rocks that just won’t go away. Dad is in a quandary and consults his guidebook – this is a reminder of a 1960’s Esquire Magazine book I picked up second-hand titled What Every Young Man Should Know – full of the so-called authoritative and informed opinion that would have us stockpile those rocks rather than share the burden. / RC

Roger, Little Unity